Of course the hyperreal doesn’t exist — that’s inherent to the concept! That’s the entire point: representations of ostensible reality have become ungrounded in any physical truth, but cannot be said to have lost meaning because meaning in the world is primarily formed by social consensus. When that consensus breaks with any directly observable facts, weird stuff happens (like Gain-scented Febreeze, or cryptocurrency, or meme stocks): but these things cannot be dismissed as “meaningless” because they have the meaning imbued to them by social structures!

On to Deluze: A body without organs is an excellent frame through which to understand a modern corporation (dendritic) or a hippie commune (ideally rhizomatic). That’s the point — it’s an organization operating without biological structures. Is this useful? Well, the primary goal of any organism is to continue existing…

Biopolitics is how politics affect biology: abortion and forced sterilization and healthcare. It obviously has some effect: is analyzing politics through this lens useful? Depends on your goals.

Smooth vs striation is the effects rigid schedules have on us. They have some effect, or vacations wouldn’t feel nice! Worth restructuring society over? I’m not ready to dismiss it out-of-hand.

…area studies are looking at what’s going on in your neighbourhood?

And moreover, I feel like you’re missing the point of analytic philosophy, despite having studied it: it does not derive absolute truth, but offers frameworks through which events and phenomena can be analyzed! These frameworks can be anywhere from fully explanatory to having no value at all for a given scenario, but their importance is through their engagement — and refutation is equally as important! Philosophy, more than any other field of study, is a continual dialogue about problems that can never be solved, hopefully finding new tools and perspectives along the way.