Sapendo parlare, insegna a tacere. Appunti su una fase critica della critica, 1977-1983

This article deals with three different interlaced topics: 1) a fairly philological question: the reason why the Italian critic Achille Bonito Oliva used a definition («groups of armed sensitivity») in a 1977 articles, and the reason of its disappearance in an editorial release issued after Aldo Moro’s murder; 2) the redefinition of the lexical field of Italian art criticism, and the artistic strategy before and after the crucial biennium 1977-1978; 3) being part of the author point of view, the role of the direct memories - especially, that of pop music - entangled with that events.