The knowledge information has been regarded as a primal concept of this
era across persons, nations, and cultures, and the information disclosure which
pursues to share knowledge with more people, has been requested globally,
which reflects the change of the knowledge as a whole. In this respect, the
digitalization and informationalization of knowledge have been highlighted as a
realizing apparatuses, however the phenomena would not be accord with the
original purpose of knowledge production, by extension, it would be against the
public use and enjoyment of knowledge. Paradoxically, the digitalization and
informationalization of knowledge arrives at the monopolization of knowledge, it
is not different from the colonization of knowledge.
It is the reason why Gilles Deleuze’s Geo-philosophy, Jonathan Sacks’s
Cultural specialty and Clifford Geertz’s Placeness of knowledge are quite
convincing. The characteristic of knowledge, especially humanities knowledge
that produced and consumed at cultural locality, is obviously different from that
of scientific and technical knowledge. This might be the major reason that the
exchange of philosophy between the East and the West is incommensurate with
each other for long time, and it is not surprising that the cultural barriers and
knowledge gap between both sides are hard to overcome even in this digital
age.
In this paper, in this regard, it is argued that it cannot be simply justified
that western local knowledge which disguises the universal and global
knowledge, intervenes and distort other cultures. Knowledge cannot be utilized
as a weaponry of the powerful countries which promote and justify the
colonization of knowledge. The knowledge should fulfill the role as a public
goods for all mankind and be helpful. In this respect, we should reconsider the
significance of publicness of knowledge, the public sharing of knowledge in this
glocal age.