In 2021, the journal Social and Health Sciences published a Special Issue, guest edited by Professor Lara Sheehi, on Necrocapitalism and Psychic Violence. The articles that comprise this issue are wide-ranging, and explore how necrocapitalism harnesses death and dying to operationalised oppression in the local and global spheres, maintaining authority through an economy of deadly violence. The articles speak, in different ways, to our present conjuncture. However, they also go beyond present-day debates on necropolitics, and raise several important questions with respect to the urgency of resistance and the imperative of emancipatory future-building. At this virtual event launching this important Special Issue, four authors who contributed to the issue will discuss their articles, and what they mean today with respect to understanding the present so that we might change it. The speakers will be in discussion with Professor Garth Stevens.