Nice work Jon! Solid arguments. Are you going to engage with Rolnik's idea of resonance as an alternative to empathy? It's hard also not to think of Lacan, and all that Lacanians have to say re troubling transference/countertransference and the perils of empathy (operating in the imaginary). Sirriyeh's The Politics of Compassion might also interest you, it has some interesting stuff about the coloniality inherent to many discourses of empathy and compassion.
Nice work Jon! Solid arguments. Are you going to engage with Rolnik's idea of resonance as an alternative to empathy? It's hard also not to think of Lacan, and all that Lacanians have to say re troubling transference/countertransference and the perils of empathy (operating in the imaginary). Sirriyeh's The Politics of Compassion might also interest you, it has some interesting stuff about the coloniality inherent to many discourses of empathy and compassion.
Padwell (who edited the affect theory reader) also has some interesting work on empathy you could plug in
https://www.research.lancs.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/-(64086b68-588c-4e92-9362-1f4d4a26d09a).html