"undo itself" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to reverse or undo a previous action without the need for external intervention. Example: The zipper on my jacket was stuck, but after a few tugs, it managed to undo itself and I could take it off.
"It's like watching an open heart and mind undo itself," he said.
The King is spiralling through mental states, from sorrow to insanity through a tunnel of rage, inviting nature to do its worst, and in so doing, undo itself: "And thou, all-shaking thunder," he thunders, "Smite flat the thick rotundity o' the world!" Soon, the Earl of Kent rushes onstage, meeting the storm more humanly than either of his scene mates: with open fear.
Neither change will undo itself 'naturally' by the removal of its historical causes: shrublands will persist even without livestock grazing, and dense forests will eventually burn at intensities that will result in nearly total tree mortality.
He does so despite everyone else in the story, including his own brother, who turns out not to be dead and who invented the game's means of time travel, insisting he cannot ultimately succeed, and that time will undo itself, no matter what.
Daley's account of REDMAP's craftiness is compelling — so compelling that it almost undoes itself.
Dizzy spells and lapses of attention followed and he complained that his mind was "undoing itself ".
The title is classic Waldrop, a phrase that asserts its meaning by undoing itself.
But the octopus at Boukiés had gone a step beyond, the flesh undoing itself, achieving a texture, at its core, close to nectar.
One of the big lessons I took away from that book is to beware of feminism undoing itself by infighting among its women members.
Its plot reaches a tragic conclusion, and then undoes itself as the opera is actually repeated backward, thanks to the intervention of the Bearded Sage, who argues that time moves both ways.
The formula and the rationale for this vision of academic freedom undoing itself in the service of academic freedom are concisely given in a Howard Zinn quotation Lloyd and Scheuller ask us to remember: "To me, academic freedom has always meant the right to insist that academic freedom be more than academic".
