Max Blechman (1971-), the editor of Drunken Boat, was born in New York City. He received his BA at the Eugene Lang College, New School for Social Research and studied at the Sorbonne where he was awarded two degrees in philosophy. He is currently completing a Ph.D thesis on Rousseau at the Center for Research on Modern European Philosophy at Kingston University, UK. His Drunken Boat publications are Drunken Boat: An Anarchist Journal of Literature and the Visual Arts (1991), Drunken Boat: Art, Rebellion, Anarchy (1994) and Revolutionary Romanticism: A Drunken Boat Anthology (1999). He has published essays on political philosophy, aesthetics and utopia, mostly in the French press, twice guest-edited—with Michael Lowy—the French philosophical and literary journal, Europe, and translated and introduced Miguel Abensour's Democracy Against the State: Marx and the Machiavellian Moment (2011).