The DAAD Summer School conceptually exploited the tension between the logics of infrastructures as stable and usually state owned and those of digital platforms as constantly re-programmable and privately owned, and the ways this opposition develops and stands out in post-Soviet authoritarianism and in comparable cases. The ‘infrastructural lens’ in the social sciences and cultural studies provides the conceptual apparatus to dismantle various configurations of political power in times of platformization. It also contributes analytical instruments to identify drivers of political change. Infrastructures and digital platforms are political in terms of the resources, alliances, flows, modes of behaviour, interactions, claims, representations, and artefacts they enable. Which new civil society actors and assemblages have gained momentum in Belarus and in the other non-democracies due to digitalization and platformization? And what may be their future prospects in the long-term?