The book felt more like the ramblings of the Unabomber, a manifesto of sorts of duality, constrasts, and the eventual collision of that duality. I can see why it was on the bookshelf in the movie the Matrix.
Sure, there were some interesting perspectives, that labels define a system to then create entropy in a system, but I think Jean Baudrillard was lost in his own mind trying to understand simulation as it applied to his concepts of a dualistic existence than he was in actuality trying to define or understand it.
Wouldn't recommend. Strange book.
Like the Matrix is trying to understand individuality and this is the result. Funny thing. The original book seen on the movie the Matrix doesn't have an author's name on it.